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The Last Volcano - A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury (Paperback) Loot Price: R640
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The Last Volcano - A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury (Paperback): John Dvorak

The Last Volcano - A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury (Paperback)

John Dvorak

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Volcanoes have fascinated-and terrified-people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific study of volcanoes and the life of the man who pioneered the field, Thomas Jaggar. Educated at Harvard, Jaggar went to the Caribbean after Mount Pelee exploded in 1902, killing more than 26,000 people. Witnessing the destruction and learning about the horrible deaths these people had suffered, Jaggar vowed to dedicate himself to a study of volcanoes. What followed was fifty years of global travel to eruptions in Italy, Alaska, Central America, Japan and the Pacific. In 1912, he built a small science station at the edge of a lake of molten lava at Kilauea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, with the goal of solving the mystery of why volcanoes erupt and how they could be predicted. Jaggar found something else at Kilauea: true love. She was Isabel Maydwell, a widowed school teacher who came to Kilauea to restart her life. For more than twenty ears, she and Jaggar ran the science station, living in a small house at the edge of a high cliff that overlooked the lava lake. Maydwell would quickly becoming one of the world's most astute observers of volcanic activity. Mixed with tales of myths and rituals, as well as the author's own experiences and insight into volcanic activity, The Last Volcano reveals the lure and romance of confronting nature in its most magnificent form-the edge of a volcanic eruption.

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Imprint: Pegasusbooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2017
Authors: John Dvorak
Dimensions: 221 x 145 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-1-68177-298-1
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General
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LSN: 1-68177-298-1
Barcode: 9781681772981

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